Example sentences of "[that] i thought [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women . |
| 2 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |
| 3 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 4 | ‘ There was everything between you … everything that I thought we had … in Seville … and here . |
| 5 | No I , no I understand what you 're saying , it 's just that I thought you said three questions of each . |
| 6 | You know when I when I first thought of that I thought you know I 'd let us keep it . |
| 7 | ‘ I confess that I thought you 'd taken the boat . |
| 8 | No excuses , as I 've said , and the only explanation I can offer is that I thought you loved Jones . |
| 9 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 10 | Not that I thought he understood the music that much , but it was the image of he people behind the music , because people like Charlie Mingus are quite characters . |
| 11 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 12 | In this particular instance , I casually ‘ looked through my window ’ and muttered to myself that I thought I saw ‘ some people ’ outside my house . |
| 13 | I felt so enthusiastic when I found this out and I began to read the stories , that I thought I saw the River of the Leprechauns , which is the crystal road to their kingdom ‘ Undersea . ’ |
| 14 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 15 | My problem , if you can call it that , at the time was that I thought I had all the natural talent in the world and did n't need to train . |
| 16 | Afterwards I felt ashamed that I thought I knew better than they did , especially when they were doing everything for free . |
| 17 | ‘ How can I believe you , when all that I thought I knew of you was false … ? ’ |
| 18 | Having been diagnosed , I abandoned that I thought I knew , which was a series of stereotypes about cancer . |
| 19 | ‘ Sexual liberation ’ , the appearance of pornography seemed , again , to have a freedom and an ease that I thought I did n't have . |
| 20 | When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet . |